I need to send a hexedecimal value to to communications port. I am trying to connect ( via modem ) to a piece of medical equipment that only starts responding when it has recived the value 84hex. MSComm will only let me store characters on the Output buffer
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 03:00:00 GMT
Anthony Blurto #2 / 3
How do i send a hex value to the comm port
I need to send a hexedecimal value to to communications port. I am trying to connect ( via modem ) to a piece of medical equipment that only starts responding when it has recived the value 84hex. MSComm will only let me store characters on the Output buffer
Surely the hardware just refers to the value by Hex notation. 84HEX is 132 decimal or Chr$(132). Therefore you just output a chr$(132).
Anthony
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 03:00:00 GMT
David Clear #3 / 3
How do i send a hex value to the comm port
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On Friday, April 26, 1996, Justin Broad wrote... > I need to send a hexedecimal value to to communications port. I am trying > to connect ( via modem ) to a piece of medical equipment that only starts > responding when it has recived the value 84hex. MSComm will only let me > store characters on the Output buffer
How do i send a hex value to the comm port